John McCain campaign sez McCain invented the BlackBerry!
By John Amato Monday Sep 15, 2008 1:00pmWhile Al Gore never said he invented the Internets, but was attacked by the media, McCain's people are claiming he created the Blackberry..
Asked what work John McCain did as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that helped him understand the financial markets, the candidate's top economic adviser wielded visual evidence: his BlackBerry.
"He did this," Douglas Holtz-Eakin told reporters this morning, holding up his BlackBerry. "Telecommunications of the United States is a premier innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce Committee. So you're looking at the miracle John McCain helped create and that's what he did."
Al Gore, call your office.
That John McCain sure is a miracle worker...
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I had no idea the development of the Blackberry got Federal Funding...
If this was a joke, it's a poor one. Canadians invented the Blackberry and the ones I have met don't like the cavalier treatment they and their country sometimes get from Americans. It's such a shame, as Canadians are too nice to be treated this way.
A Canadian Firm invented the blackberry - Research In Motion
Next McCain will claim that he and Cindy's relationship is the inspiration behind Cocoon.
OT but Palin Says Thanks but...uh..thanks to Bridge to Hometown.
that's a bit of a stretch at best. i assume the comment was around the expansion of the telecommunications network which did make the blackberry possible along with the broad band most of us enjoy now. it was all due to a bad bet by the telecomms who laid so much fiber they priced themselves out of the market...in a good way...not sure what McCain had to do with that.
“The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.”
- President Herbert Hoover, in a press conference on October 30, 1929, the day following the Stock Market Crash, on the eve of the Great Depression
Sound familiar?
Freezerburn @ 4:
nice, made me spit my drink on they keyboard.
Behold the McCain miracle: He invented the Blackberry!
(McCain doesn't really know what the Blackberry is or does. But, he created it anyway.)
McCain has acknowledged that he doesn't know how to use a computer and can't send e-mail, one of the BlackBerry's prime functions.
*Note:Blackberry was developed by Research in Motion, a Canadian company.
A readers wrote, "Not only did McCain invent the BlackBerry -- he outsourced it!"
*Note: Blackberry was developed by Research in Motion, a Canadian company.
A readers wrote, "Not only did McCain invent the BlackBerry -- he outsourced it!"
#2 and #3 -- I was just going to make the same point! Blackberries are Canadian!! Question for McCain: Why is congress using our Federal money to support a private, Canadian company. Adn why does John McCain want credit for this?
So now McCain has invented the Blackberry - not only invented it, but outsourced it to a Canadian company, thus denying the US of any money and taxes and royalties made from its sale. Gee, what a great guy. First he won't tell us how to catch Bin Laden unless we elect him to the presidency, and now he denies the country any profits from "his" newfangled invention.
But who gives a fuck anyway. I invented oral sex, rainbows and dog farts. Beat that, you stupid mother-fucking geezer. Oh, and I can see Cuba from my house - and I live in Paris, Tennessee! Can I be vice-president now?
Gotugye @ 7:
McCain was quicker...he said it on the same day. now tha'ts change you can take the bank...well...if they're still open
Freezerburn @ 4:
HAHAHAHA!!
After the way they maligned Al Gore's comments about "inventing" the Internet, it takes a lot of damn gall to say that McCain is responsible for the Blackberry.
But I expect nothing less from these increasingly shameless charlatans. Can't wait to see what else they come up with in the next 49 days.
Patrick @ 8:
Glad to know it. If I've caused the expulsion of fluids, I know my work is done here.
OMG, Obama has to repeat this at EVERY SINGLE STOP! This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard from McCain's camp. Obama needs to go to every event and repeat, "Not only is John McCain out-of-touch, but now his campaign is claiming that he invented the Blackberry!"
It would be such sweet retribution for Al Gore and Democrats everywhere. They should make TV spots repeating the claim. Hit them over the head with this and make them deny it. Hilarious!
Wait, wait, wait... they told us he couldn't type emails because of his horrible treatment as a P.O.W.!
Anais @ 2:
So THAT'S why my Blackberry is about the same size and weight as a hockey puck.
Freezerburn @ 15:
Excuse me, but your work is not done until you've made McGramps piss his Depends on TV. Now get back to work!!
I do believe he is old enough that he can claim to have invented the wheel and fire as well.
Oh for fucks sake!
The media had BETTER take him to task on this steaming pile of bullshit!
my blackberry is annoying and needs to be recharged constantly. it also vibrates like a cheap sex toy...maybe he did invent it
I think McCain is old enough to have invented the strawberry, blueberry and rhubarb. Mmm... rhubarb pie! Thanks John McCain!!
Speaking on behalf of Canadians I say... Give it back! Our Blackberry! Bad McCain, Bad!
I live just a short drive from RIM. Though if they keep expanding chances are I'll live just a short walk from them.
Every year goes by and I think "Why didn't I invest in them!?". I think it's because my participating in Yahoo's Stock Challenge told me that I suck at investing. Anyway. I digress.
Another day, another lie from the McCain campaign.
Freddy Knuckles @ 19:
Don't forget, I coined the name McDepends.
When will someone bitch slap some sense into Tucker Bounds and the other worthless little KKKarl Rove clones who are making up these lies and treating the American public like they are as crazy as McSame sounds?
Freezerburn @ 4:
It'll be good when the spaceship comes to take them back to their home planet "Sociopathworld"
A ha! So...all IT support persons....we all know who to blame!
But he was booed at an on-line graduation ceremony.
Wow! And just think, the majority of McCain supporters think the Earth is only 7,000 years old, and the sun revolves around the Earth, and dinosaurs were on the Ark. What a Brainiac McCain is!
Then there is little gem I picked up over at Kos. This is McCain talking:
"I am uniquely qualified to lead our nation during this technological revolution. While in the Navy, I depended upon the technologies and information provided by our nation’s scientists and engineers with during each mission.
And how many years ago was that? About 40 or so? Weren't they still relying on the hi-tech string and tin can communications back then?
kasinca @ 27:
I will. Just get me close enough and I promise I will make them cry on national TV.
Did he come with the idea while he was a POW?
At his age he probably came up with the abacus.
Lastly, why would he come up with a tech that, according to Jonah Goldberg, he cant use b/c of his disabilty from being a POW?
Well, we can chalk up this claim right next to Palin's assertion that she's got foreign relations skills because Sarah can see Russia from her doorstep....
Didn't I hear McCain doesn't know how to use the email?....
Duh!......
You mean to tell us that the guy that doesn't even know how to use the 'Internets', send an e-mail, and 'doesn't know how to use a computer'....invented the Blackberry....
The Defense rests your honor. (Addressing all 'undecided voters', fence sitters, 'independents', etc)
So know...we can start long threads on con-servative sites about how many things ExxonJohn McBush invented...
Funny, I thought he invented fire !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
John McCain... Mr. Technology... Hahahahahahahahahah..... good one.....JD
Of course, he could never use one because of his POW injuries.
He did, however, invent rope.
Is the Coast Clear?--- @ 35:
Palin the "energy expert" also said that America gets 20% of our oil from Alaska. The actual number is closer to 3.5%.
I bet Al Gore is pretty pissed right now. McCain is stealing his thunder.
mlf1218 @ 37:
No, no, no!! He NAMED fire.
Freddy Knuckles @ 41:
her claim was even more ridiculous than that; she said the US got 20% of ALL it's ENERGY from Alaska.
I understand he also invented the strawberry and the blueberry. At least in these claims he has some legitimacy; He is old enough to have been there at the creation, and God was busy doing some other stuff.
Republican mantra, if the truth doesn't work for you, just make shit up.
Dave Fragments @ 3:
I'm glad someone else noted this. I was going to add the same thing.
So when did mcsame move to Canada to create this miracle of soon to be replaced by the Iphone technology?
Did any of his ridiculous handlers even think to google this shit to see if they could even make this lie credible?
Freddy Knuckles @ 43:
That's funny!
POP@46;
Yep.... It's ALL they got.... I can only hope the usual susceptable morons either don't read this or don't get it.... Because they WILL buy any swill these serial liars sell......JD
I invented breathing. And Pop Tarts.
You all owe me big time.
Does he even have a Blackberry? If he does, does he know how to use it?
You mean he didn't?
Wow, McSame invented the Blackberry. Too bad he never learned to use it. OBTW, since it's Canadian, doesn't that disqualify him from being President since you have to be born in the USA?
Um, I don't know how to use a Blackberry.
Annoyed Canuck @ 50:
Thanks for the breathing thing, but you really should have worked longer on the Pop Tarts.
Annoyed Canuck @ 50:
I invented beer. and pizza. I think you owe me more.
Another wild-ass claim by the frauds of politics. The sad thing about this sordid claim is that the very clueless minions that don't think, they just vote what the catch-phrase in their small minds tells them to will actually believe it. What is even worse is that the frauds of politics know that very well. In other words, they know they will take advantage of those little brains and the little brains will never know how they are being manipulated.
P.D. @ 54:
If you know how to use your phone, and email, you know how to use a blackberry. It's not brain science or rocket surgery. So, you're all good.
Is there a way to directly e-mail the Obama campaign and urge them to use ripe stuff such as this?
This should be President Gore's sweet and very justified revenge ...
Not that I'm a huge proponent of lying I always believed if you have to lie at the very least stay as close to the truth as possible...
Now this McCain created the blackberry thing is what I would call a huge "whopper".....
Did these guys say this with a straight face?....
I invented multi-syllabic words. And, boy, is George Bush pissed at me!
Fanon @ 56:
Find me the man or woman who invented the martini and that person has my vote.
You would have my husband's vote in a McCain minute.
Dow down 90.
pissed off patricia @ 32:
What?.. I mean.. WHAT? Did he really say that? That.. basically.. he once to used technology.. so that makes him 'uniquely qualified' in the area?
Speaking as someone in the sciences.. Um.. I'd rather go with a lawyer like Obama, thank you very much. Not someone who panders to the Christian right on stem-cells, evolution and the oil companies on global warming.
Speaking of stem cells.. that's some nice outsourcing right there, what with Bush dropping the funding of all but the (at that time) existing cultures, the vast majority of which aren't in the USA. So... Europe and Canada say "thanks" for all the NIH research grants. Your tax dollars at work.
Freddy Knuckles @ 19:
Okay, okay. Well, I'll need something scary. Let's see, what scares septuagenarians? Ah, I got it! Exponentially more complicated technology! Quick, someone get me a Blackberry . . .
John McCain healed my cat's bladder infection! And he invented the iPod! Hallelujah!
Barack Obama, on the other hand, ran over my cat with his Prius.
What's Palin going to have to come up with to top this claim by McCain's campaign. Did she invent the gun? Maybe it was the beehive hair do.
BigIslandDave @ 61:
No worries he's clueless...
Has not discovered your location yet....
I am reminded of the Twilight Zone episode where a tycoon bargains to be sent back in time, so he can capitalize on the ideas of others ahead of them. He arrives, and tries to explain an automobile to some machinists, but lacks the actual knowledge to describe anything useful, and is dismissed as a kook.
That sums up these arsehats rather nicely. They don't actually KNOW anything or PRODUCE anything, but they're experts and responsible for the wonders of the Blackberry.
I'd really love to see a picture of Mr. I-Can't-Raise-My-Arms 'Cause-The-VietCong-Broke-'Em texting away on his Blackberry.
What a joke.
pissed off patricia @ 67:
Moose? No, no, I got it. She invented the Murican flag bikini!
Freezerburn @ 65:
That'd do it. But be careful you don't make his head explode. I can only imagine what that would do his combover.
I can't help myself...had to do a LOLMcCain for this...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/57536388@N00/2862651763/
:-D
Fanon @ 70:
Whopper upon whopper upon whopper....
I definitely see a pattern of credibility issues here....
liberalNmoderation @ 21:
Why would the McCain campaign say it if it wasn't true?
Okay, that's me done role-playing for today. I could never work in the MSM.
Is the Coast Clear?--- @ 73:
She invented the Whopper?
I think he meant the Blackboard or the Blacklist.
Or maybe he had Berri Berri when he was a POW!
Miatch @ 40:
Along with all these lies he's hanging his campaign with it....
this is the best Obama can do? come on, how about some real information...
When Karl Rove said this weekend that McCain couldn't use a keyboard because of the injuries he suffered as a POW, I guess he wasn't aware of McCain's major accomplishment with the smaller keyboard of the blackberry. McCain is probably to humble to crow about accomplishments such as this.
Fanon @ 75:
I don't think so but all these jokers have cornered the market on it.....
ThinkProgress also spoke with Blair Levin, who is currently Managing Director at Stifel Nicolaus and served as Hundt’s chief of staff at the FCC. Levin pointed out that McCain actually voted against the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA ‘93) that “authorized the spectrum auctions that created the competitive wireless market that gave rise to companies like Research in Motion [the creator of Blackberry].”
[...]
UpdateAs Matt Yglesias points out, McCain was one of just five senators to vote against the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/16/hundt-mccain-blackberry/
Research In Motion.
Doing VERY well.
Hopefully after Nov.4th McBain and Palin might be looking for RIM jobs.
At this point I think McCain's campaign is hoping to "shoot the moon" by collecting all the lies.
Actually, one of the primary inventors of cell phone technology was Hedy Lamarr, a glamorous 40s movie star. She co-invented frequency-hopped spread spectrum communications during WW2 as a means of preventing the detection and jamming of radio-guided torpedoes. This technology wasn't used until after the patent expired.
From Wikipedia:
"Avant garde composer George Antheil, a son of German immigrants and neighbor of Lamarr, had experimented with automated control of instruments. Together, he and Lamarr submitted the idea of a Secret Communication System in June 1941. On 11 August 1942, U.S. Patent 2,292,387 was granted to Antheil and "Hedy Kiesler Markey", Lamarr's married name at the time. This early version of frequency hopping used a piano roll to change between 88 frequencies and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or jam."
"The idea was impractical, ahead of its time, and not feasible due to the state of mechanical technology in 1942. It was not implemented in the USA until 1962, when it was used by U.S. military ships during a blockade of Cuba,[6] after the patent had expired. Neither Lamarr nor Antheil (who died in 1959) made any money from the patent. Perhaps due to this lag in development, the patent was little-known until 1997, when the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave Lamarr an award for this contribution.[1]"
"Lamarr's and Antheil's frequency-hopping idea serves as a basis for modern spread-spectrum communication technology, such as COFDM used in WiFi network connections and CDMA used in some cordless and wireless telephones."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
pissed off patricia @ 32:
Actually, McCain's technological acumen goes even further back than that. As a boy, he would bang on the cave wall to communicate with the other neanderthals.
McClaim invented the liebrary
“Palin supports $600 million ‘other’ bridge project.”
The cons are turning on the ticket.
McLiar, the deregulator with Gramm, has flipped flopped and now wants to reform regulation.
Oh, the insanity.
Palin invented the bear couch cover and the king crab candy dish.
this would actually work against mccain if the dems had a talk radio monoply and could pound propaganda into the ears of 60MIL fact-challenged americans every week
Give the guy a break will ya? Maybe one of the houses he owns but forgot about is in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada? I mean, if being close to Russia equates to foreign policy expertise, wouldn't owning a home in Waterloo entitle one to claim a role in the advent of the Blackberry? I think it does.
I was always under the impression from Republicans that government never created anything. Seems to me, that if Senator McCain is claiming that his position on the Commerce Committee somehow facilitated the creation of the Blackberry, then wouldn't this shine light on the lie that government is the problem and not part of the solution?
pissed off patricia @ 32:
Hi Patricia:
In the 1960's the Navy was transitioning from the vacuum tube era to the solid state era. The solid state era has become the digital age now and puts Old Man McSame two generations past what was taught at Annapolis when he was a Midshipman, not that he ever learned enough to be considered competent in technological subjects. He couldn't even remember the proper body position to prevent the injuries he sustained when he bailed out in Vietnam, and that was the 5th time he crashed a plane!
The facts are twisted again...but he did invent the telephone
This is why the USA is now way behind a large number of other countries.
Telecom here (in the USA, where I live) quite frankly sucks. A great example
is all the current cell phone problems.
Here's a link that describes how conservatives deal with those that exercise their first amendment rights. Typical Republicans.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/527013.html
Dave Fragments @ 3:
Yes, but Alaska is right next to Canada and since he picked Palin that means he helped invent the Blackberry. Sheesh, how hard is that to figure out??
Well if you have been around since Adam and Eve, maybe he is talking about the fruit.
I have worked hard as a non-POW but never-the-less disabled American veteran. I pulled myself up with my shoestrings (wtf are bootstraps?) and went back to school, got a degree, and have been working my ass off to pay for fuel, feed/clothe/house three children and two adults.
What I am writing today though is MUCH MORE IMPORTANT. I heard that you are really good at making blackberries. I really, really, really freaking need want a blackberry. I don't want a strawberry, a raspberry (at this minute anyway), what I really, really, really freaking want is one of your blackberries. Please make me one. You made one for big Dick and that little weasel in the press briefings. Please, don't forget to make one for me.
P.S. I'm under the understanding that your cohort (Sarah Palin) is an expert on vodka. As you know she is governor of Alaska and they are within drinking distance of Russia, so obviously she is not only an expert but most likely the leading expert in the country on vodka (if not possibly the whole world)....do you think maybe you could also include a few liters of fine Russian vodka?
Well, maybe I owe an apology, because I actually invented John McCain.
Well, not invent so much, I just discarded the empty husk from an actual human being I had created in my lab, and that empty husk somehow became sentient.
Anyway, please feel free to smear the shit out of him with this Blackberry thing, just like those slimy GOP fucks did with Al Gore and that internet thing (with the difference being that Al Gore was actually telling the truth).
What you don't know is that John McCain invented the Blackberry while he was a POW!
PorridgeGun @ 74:
I could by god! I'd show them what for!
You betcha!
Nah...I couldn't actually...gotta shave every day...fuck that.
And to think that the Blackberry is made by a Canadian company called Research in Motion.
Tom @ 100:
Wasn't that the bambooberry?
Dave Fragments @ 3:
... and the irony of it all is they were almost sued out of existence in the US of A.
Isn't America wonderful, we no longer have to invent anything... we can just appropriate foreign inventions even if our legal system is partially responsible for their near demise.
Which sort of fits quite nicely with McCain's approach to politics: appropriate other people's ideas and achievements.
Loonie @ 99:
Please be more careful next time. You might really fuck up and invent a whiney/nasally lying bitch from Alaska. Then we'd all really hate you.
pissed off patricia @ 32:
"Then I flew them into the ground. Repeatedly."
Where's the video; WHERE'S THE VIDEO?
P.S. KUDOS for the Obama campaign getting that unbelieveable "The economy is fundamentally strong" McCain quote on the air so fast. Never have a politician's words so needed to be seen and heard so badly.
-Scott
pissed off patricia @ 55:
Yeah...my invention...the "toaster strudel" totally kicks your pop tarts dry, chalky asses! haHA!
Was he talking about Obama and meant to say Black Barry to garner more votes in the south.
fastfeat @ 106:
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Oh SNAP!
This claim is somewhat reasonable. We can do better than to parrot past GOP lies.
jeff @ 109:
That's funny and terrible all at once.
Slightly off topic, in a presser talking about TrooperGate, a Palin spokeswoman said Commissioner Monegan was fired for not 'sharing Governor Palin's fiscal responsibility'.
I think the word she was trying for was fiduciary.
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The next LOLMcCain needs to be six people, each holding up a Blackberry, with the letters M C C A I N P A L I N on the screens, with the next frame showing those same devices reading A L L B U L L S H I T.
I picked blackberries as a kid 60-yrs. ago. McCain must have been 12-yrs. old when he invented them. My Mom used to make blackberry pies with them. They were yummy with vanilla ice cream on a hot piece. Being an a la mode voter, I think I'll vote for McCain now!
Radio Host Eddie Burke has been suspended after leaking the women organizers numbers. Let's hope they fire him.
If any of the Admins see this, Adrea Kramer asked McCain's economic advisor about what she said on local radio here in St>louis during the 12pm central time period on MSNBC. She asked her if Palin coyuld run Hewlett-LPackard, and she said "No. But that's not what she's running for".
It's all true. McCain drew the schematics for the Blackberry in the dirt in between torture sessions in Vietnam.
Patrick @ 6:
pATRICK, i'M IMPRESSED!
Rob @ 117:
By holding a twig between his teeth. His arms were broken.
“I am uniquely qualified to lead our nation during this technological revolution. While in the Navy, I depended upon the technologies and information provided by our nation’s scientists and engineers with during each mission."
Yeah, "during each mission" that ended with you crashing each plane! EVERY MISSION! I guess he should have paid attention at The Naval Academy instead of being 6th from the dumbest out of almost 700 students! Technology is great if you are smart enough to actually understand it!
"When Karl Rove said this weekend that McCain couldn’t use a keyboard because of the injuries he suffered as a POW"...
Tell it to Stephen Hawking.
fastfeat @ 106:
McCain's flying incompetency was one of the main motivations behind the invention of the Auto-Pilot.
Freddy Knuckles @ 112:
I know...kinda like watching AFV when those old people dance and bust their ass...
Ya can't but laugh...but then you're like OOOOOH!!! Ouch!
well, if mccrazyoldman helped to develop the blackberry, can i call his office for tech support, cuz im having the worst time trying to get my customers devices to sink up with the enterprise server
Jim @ 120:
Not to mention the technology aboard an aircraft carrier (let alone a fighter jet) has advanced significantly.
"Uniquely qualified" makes it sound like McCain was the only fracking pilot in the Vietnam War.
Shadowgm Hussein @ 119:
Ok now...that's goin a bit far I think....
No no no, Douglas Holtz-Eakin is only slightly mistaken: John McCain DISCOVERED the actual BLACKBERRY. Prior to that the hunter-gatherers had only strawberries and blueberries to choose from...
getalife @ 87:
she supports the "other bridge" because she believes it will decrease commute time from wasilla to anchorage
of course, while she will continue to fight for this bridge, the rest of the roads in alaska go to shit, and she is still able to give every family in alaska 3750 dollars and not reinvest in their own infrastructure
alaska first....fuck everybody else
"I guarantee anyone approach and ask McCain his thoughts on Blackberrys and the reply will be, "Yum, good to eat!".
liberalNmoderation @ 126:
McCain himself admits his arms were broken. That's supposed to be part of his character.
So was the fact that he didn't have a kitchen table.
Shadowgm Hussein @ 130:
Humor challenged son?
Funny, I thought RIM in Kitchener-Waterloo came up with the idea for the Blackberry.
discard the last post, not enough coffee.
Chris from Canada @ 132:
That is impossible. Everybody knows that a country with great educational system, clean cities, and socialized medicine can't invent anything!
Only American overworked underpaid tech workers who have to live in fear of losing their benefits, their pension, and their job can come up with such inventions.
Haven't you heard: Necessity/desperation is the mother of invention?
Tyler Durden @ 131:
Apparently. Must have been the Obama Waffles I ate for breakfast.
Am I the only one who thinks that McCain's constant gaffes are a ploy by the sick bastard to plea insanity if/when our very own American Nüremberg trials come to pass?
He is like our very own Göring... except with more crashes and less ace points.
Tyler Durden @ 133:
Fair enough. I didn't see a thing.
Shadowgm Hussein @ 135:
#133 :-)
"My Friends, I went 5 and a half years without a BlackBeret or whatever you kids call it ..."
Wait a minute. He doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send email, but he invented the Blackberry? What is he a Blackberry savant... or just a plain old liar. (Retorical questrion)
First BushCo makes fun of Al Gore for "inventing the Internet"'s when he never said it.
Then, after 9/11, BushCo tells us "..to go shopping!" and that's how we were to fight terrorism (I actually have a few other ideas but they are a little too extreme). Then, when presented with a reasonably good idea to cut fuel consumption, i.e., the tire gauge, that was mocked. Sen. McCain invents an electronic device actually invented by a Canadian firm and he probably has no idea how to use it. But then, Sen. Biden makes a crack about buying toasters and the GOP is all over it.
Can the GOP puh-lease just GO AWAY! They are so intent on trying to steal this election as they have so many others; why can't we do something like sue them for whatever? After all, this is America and you can sue a ham sandwich if you like.
They are just too pathetic!
He also claimed he invented the cell phone and wifi:
"Under my guiding hand, Congress developed a wireless spectrum policy that spurred the rapid rise of mobile phones and Wi-Fi technology that enables Americans to surf the web while sitting at a coffee shop, airport lounge, or public park."
-McCain.
http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=42
from the guy that doesn't even know how to use email......
earl @ 139:
Its a lie, everybody knows VietNam, as an ex-French colony, had a healthy supply of berets...
Fiorina: Palin Lacks Experience to Run a Company
Updated 3:17 p.m.
By Michael D. Shear
Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina amended her comments from earlier today that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin could not run a major corporation like HP.
How? By saying that Sen. John McCain couldn't run one either.
In an interview on NBC with Andrea Mitchell, Fiorina was asked about her comment. In response, she said, "Well, I don't think John McCain could run a major corporation."
Not exactly on message. But she went on to explain that the question is a red herring.
"I don't think Barack Obama could run a major corporation. I don't think Joe Biden could," she said. "But it is not the same as being the president or vice president of the United States. It is a fallacy to suggest that the country is like a company, so of course, to run a business, you have to have a lifetime of experience in business, but that's not what Sarah Palin, John McCain, Barack Obama or Joe Biden are doing."
Earlier, Fiorina was asked about Palin by a host of the McGraw-Hill Show on St. Louis KTRS Radio: "Do you think she has the experience to run a major company, like Hewlett Packard?"
"No, I don't," Fiorina responded. "But you know what? That's not what she's running for."
Fiorina has been a magnet for criticism as a frequent surrogate on the road for McCain. She caused controversy when she said health plans should pay for birth control if they pay for Viagra, a position that is at odds with McCain's.
And her history at Hewlett Packard has become an issue. When she departed, she received a $21 million golden parachute, the very kind of payouts that McCain has condemned in the last several days.
Fiorina's comment was the second gaffe for a McCain staffer today. Earlier, Doug Holtz-Eakin suggested that McCain created the Blackberry, a statement which was later called "boneheaded" by a McCain spokesman.
Red Headed StepChild @ 142:
Oh the irony, the research center where the technology behind wi-fi came to be is located in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands.
A response:
http://evangelicalperspective.blogspot.com/2008/09/new-on-fox-when-ideol...
Damon M @ 144:
Since Fiorina pretty much ran Lucent (nee Bell Labs) to the ground, and was kicked out before she could do irreversible damage to HP (which is still to this day a few years later trying to recover from Fiorina's reign of error)... then I guess she must be right: It takes one incompetent idiot to know one.
fastfeat @ 106:
And the first few were original Wright brothers flyers!
liberalNmoderation @ 21:
...kinda like they did with Gore and the Internet.
Hello, Pot. Hello, Kettle. Kettle, meet Pot. Pot, Kettle...Wow. This managed to condemn how Gore's words about his role in the ASSISTANCE of technology were twisted in the media, and praise the same media for the same tactics regarding another candidate. Come on guys. He was OBVIOUSLY referring to McCain's role in the legal assistance for the improvement of technology - not that he invented, or even necessarily understands the technology. Please, for the sake of this election and what's at stake, stick to the REAL issues. There's plenty out there.
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